When Shen Tian arrived at Gu Qing's camp by the Chihe River, it was already evening, and Gu Qing finally caught a fish from the river, and was neatly cutting the scales, and the fish was salted and salted.

"Master Hou's method of making fish is novel." Shen Tian curiously observed the dead fish.

"Braised is more in line with my taste......" Gu Qing looked at the fish, a little disappointed. It's too small to eat for a meal.

"How do you eat fish?" Gu Qing asked curiously.

Shen Tian smiled innocently: "The last general doesn't eat much fish on weekdays, it's very troublesome, and there is not much meat, so it's better to eat mutton, bite down on a large piece of meat, and drip oil in your mouth." ”

Han Jie squatted next to him and said, "The last general occasionally eats fish, but it is all eaten with fish tart, and it is really troublesome to do." ”

Gu Qing sighed and pursed his lips.

The so-called "fish belly" is actually sashimi.

That's right, sashimi was available as early as the Tang Dynasty, and what Japan regarded as the quintessence of the country was leftover from the Chinese ancestors. The difference is that because Japan is close to the sea, the fish fillets eaten are all marine fish, while Datang is a landlocked country, and river fish can also be made into fish belly, but the process is very troublesome.

The fish is first pickled, cut and pricked, and finally sliced and marinated in a mysterious sauce.

It tastes quite chewy, and the taste is not rich in layers, mainly to eat umami, but the process of picking thorns is very troublesome, so civilian families usually don't eat much fish, even if they eat grilled fish, they rarely have spare time to pick out the spines one by one.

Powerful families may often eat it, after all, they don't have to do the work of picking thorns themselves, and they have their own cooks to do it for them.

Gu Qing doesn't like to eat sashimi, to be precise, he refuses all raw meat, for fear of making parasites.

"It's almost dark, what are you doing here? There's only one fish, and I won't let you rub it. ”

Regarding Shen Tian's arrival, Gu Qing's first reaction was to protect food.

Shen Tian smiled: "Hou Ye is too worried, the last general is not good for this thing, but Hou Ye only eats one fish, it is inevitable that it is a little less, and the last will help you catch a few more." ”

After speaking, Shen Tian got up and took off his shirt, and waded into the river naked, under the golden afterglow of the sunset, the knotted muscles on Shen Tian's body glowed with bronze light, like ...... The eighteen bronze men of the Shaolin Temple.

The water of the Red River is not deep, its source is the snow water of the Kunlun Mountains, it is the end of the strong crossbow when it flows to the Western Regions, the river water is only abundant in the summer of each year, and it has basically dried up in autumn and winter.

Shen Tian went down to the river bare-chested, holding an iron boring in his hand, walked to the middle of the river and stared at the river for a while, and suddenly slammed into the river with a bang, and a few stunned fish floated on the river.

Gu Qing was dumbfounded, and then felt a little hot on his face.

I sat by the river and fished for two days, but only one was caught, and they went down the river with an iron boring, and in a moment they picked up several fish.

I feel that my image of being wise and martial has shown signs of collapse.

Shen Tian scooped up the stunned fish and threw it ashore, stood in the river and waved his hand: "Is Master Hou enough?" Do you want to catch a few more? Tube full! ”

Gu Qing shook his head with a dark face.

Shen Tian went ashore at this time, wiped his body carelessly, did not wear clothes, and sat beside Gu Qing shirtless.

"Master Hou wants to eat fish in the future and tell the last general, there are a lot of fish in the Chihe River in summer, and the last general will help you catch it, how many you want, you are too slow to fish like this, it is rare to catch one in half a day, and people with short lives are afraid that they will not survive the day when the fish is hooked."

Gu Qing said with a cold face: "You know a fart, I fish...... For Yaxing, for compassion for sentient beings, for the sake of transcending the fish in the river. ”

The blunt excuse made Shen Tian not know whether he should show his sincere appearance, and glanced at the properly salted fish suspiciously, he didn't know how miserable the torture he had suffered before his death, and then nodded hesitantly: "Yes, Hou Ye has compassion for all sentient beings, if you know that Hou Ye helped it with braised water after the death of this fish you caught, you will definitely be grateful to Hou Ye......

Gu Qing sighed, these gang generals from Han Jie to Shen Tian are all rare brave generals, but they are not very good at chatting, and they will die if they chat.

"Change the subject, or I'll be more and more embarrassed." Gu Qing said decisively.

Shen Tian sighed and said, "Master Hou, Pei Yushi came to the camp in the afternoon, and he was not fooled by the pit we dug." ”

Gu Qing nodded calmly: "As expected, Pei Yushi is not a fool, this pit is too big to be fooled." ”

Shen Tian said unwillingly: "I was almost fooled, he had already picked up the pen at that time, but for some reason he suddenly reacted and threw the pen away, but unfortunately he was one step away from it." ”

Gu Qing smiled bitterly: "Actually, even if you trap him, it doesn't make much sense, if you kill Pei Zhounan, Your Majesty will continue to send people to Anxi, I can't kill the people sent by Your Majesty one after another, right?" ”

"Master Hou, will the 1,000 soldiers and horses left near the Western Regions trade route be withdrawn?" Shen Tian asked uncertainly: "They don't have much food, grass and water, it's time to go back to the camp to replenish it, they have suppressed several bandits in the past few days, and the results are quite fruitful." ”

Gu Qing asked: "In the past few days, there have been rumors in the city that bandits have robbed and killed caravans, and those so-called caravans are bandits, right?" Are you sure you didn't really kill the caravan? ”

Shen Tian hurriedly swore to the sky: "The last general swears that all the corpses belong to the bandits, and after the bandits are exterminated, the corpses will be changed into the clothes of a businessman, and they will never dare to really kill the merchants. ”

Gu Qing snorted and said, "You send someone to tell the thousand soldiers and horses, destroy the two bandits, and create two 'tragedies' to spread to Qiuzi City so that the merchants will know, and then you can go back to the camp." This pot on Pei Yushi's head, I want him to carry it solidly. ”

As he spoke, he said to Han Jie: "You let the guards enter the city in disguise, tell the innkeeper, and then incite the emotions of the merchants in the city, the dog official will cause the Western Regions trade route to be unstable, and it will help the three provinces to be scolded for a few more days." ”

The oil in the pot boiled, and the fish that had been marinated for half an hour was put into the pot, and there was a stinging sound, and a thick fragrance spread.

Gu Qing casually fried the fish, and said: "From today on, I will take the initiative to give up the power of the Jiedu Envoy, and say to the outside world that Pei Yushi ordered the Anxi Army not to go out of the camp, and the Jiedu Envoy did not dare to disobey his order, so there is no need to ask me for military and political affairs in the four towns of Anxi, I want to take a long vacation, well, you can go and ask Pei Yushi for military and political affairs, people came from afar, in order to contain my power, heh, I took the initiative to help him achieve his goal, and everyone was happy." ”

Shen Tian hesitated: "If Pei Yushi really unceremoniously takes over the power of the Jiedu envoy and handles the military and political affairs of the four towns of Anxi on behalf of the Hou Ye, what should he do?" ”

Gu Qing smiled: "If Pei Zhounan really dares to do this, I really admire him, and I admire him so much...... Haha, from the seven-grade supervision of the imperial history to the three-grade festival envoy, he jumped four levels at once, and he had to face the north and worship, and the ancestral tomb of the Pei family was smoking. ”

Turning his head to look at Shen Tian, Gu Qing said: "This is a contest between me and him, it is the mind that fights, and the strategy is the strategy, since Pei Yushi is menacing, I will show the enemy weakness and make him happy for a few days." But my fight with him can only be limited to me and him, the officers and soldiers of the Anxi Army should do nothing less, you go back and tell Chang Zhong that the daily drills are rain or shine, and the unity soldiers recruited by Liu Hongbo also have to practice every day, and the soldiers under my command will not be confused. ”

Shen Tian hugged his fists and said, "Yes." ”

Gu Qing smiled ill-willedly: "Also, after the daily drills of the soldiers, the top ten and the top 100 are rewarded, this is the rule of our Anxi Army, during my long vacation, after the daily drill, a few of you generals went to Pei Yushi and asked him for a reward, anyway, when I was appointed as the envoy of the festival, the reward money was cashed on the spot, I don't know if Pei Yushi has this confidence, the Pei family in Hedong is rich and rivals the country, it must be not bad money, you don't have to be polite to Pei Yushi." ”

Shen Tian was stunned for a moment, and then laughed yin: "Yes, the last general will definitely ask Pei Yushi for a reward with the robes, anyway, the reward must be cashed on the same day, otherwise the army's heart will be turbulent, if it causes a mutiny, I don't know whose responsibility it is......"

Gu Qing also laughed together, and then suddenly changed his face: "Okay, you go back, I won't leave you to eat." ”

Shen Tian almost choked, and said in amazement: "Why did Master Hou suddenly rush back?" ”

"Because I saw you swallowing saliva, you must be coveting the braised fish I made, go back, there is only one, I will not entertain you."

"Didn't the last general catch a few ...... for the Hou Ye?"

"Heh, the commander of my first army cooks for you, your face is bigger than Li Sima's ass, get out."

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Pei Zhounan fell into bad luck, and there was more than one bad luck, it was like stabbing the hornet's nest of the moldy god's house, and the bad luck swarmed like a hornet.

On the same day, he promised the merchants to send troops, Pei Zhounan arrived at the camp and found that he had no right to transfer troops, fortunately he brought a thousand soldiers and horses from Chang'an, so in front of the merchants of the city, Pei Zhounan transferred the thousand soldiers and horses out of the city, claiming to go north to suppress bandits.

Finally barely suppressed the scolding of the merchants, Pei Zhounan didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and another guard came to the battalion garrison, accompanied by a smile and respectfully told Pei Zhounan that recently, Gu Hou Ye was sick and did not work hard, so he asked Pei Yushi to deal with the military and political affairs of the four towns of Anxi on his behalf, and then take over after Hou Ye recovered.

The guard didn't wait for Pei Zhounan to react, he turned around and left after speaking, Pei Zhounan was so anxious that he chased after him, but the guard ran faster than a rabbit, and disappeared in an instant when he got on the horse.

Pei Zhounan was so angry that he wanted to kill someone, and he even wanted to kill the Jiedu envoy surnamed Gu.

What is this? Is it to retreat into advance?

Even if you really want to hand over power,...... You left the handsome seal! It's to send an official letter to the officials of the Jiedu Embassy! If the name is not right, how can you handle military and political affairs on your behalf?

The next day, Pei Zhounan was still lying on the bed and sleeping, and bad news came from outside the house, the bandits destroyed a caravan again, and the same did not leave a living mouth, and the caravan of more than 200 people was all dead on the trade road in the Western Regions.

In the morning, Pei Zhounan had not recovered from the continuous blows, and the generals of the Anxi Army battalion, such as Chang Zhong, Shen Tian, and Li Siye, found the Jiedu Embassy and blocked Pei Zhounan in the house.

The purpose of the generals blocking the door is very simple, in the past, when Gu Houye was the commander, he not only personally participated in the drill with the soldiers every day, meticulously completed the daily drill process, and after the drill, he would also give the winners of the day a reward and meat, but after today's drill, he has not seen movement for a long time, can Pei Yushi give an explanation to the soldiers?

Pei Zhounan was about to be driven crazy, and angrily slapped the case.

Chang Zhong and other generals are all rolling over in the sea of corpses and blood, how can they be afraid of this little movement and intimidation? So the generals stared at each other, made a "hmm" sound, and looked at Pei Zhounan not to be outdone, and the meaning in his eyes would be "what do you see" if translated into language.

After a long time, the cultural people took the lead in scaring under the forced gaze of the generals, slumped on the chair weakly, and sighed distractedly: "Where is Gu Houye now?" Take me to him. ”